Entertaining Thoughts on Entertaining

A few thoughts on entertaining from “Help! My Apartment Has a Dining Room” by Kevin Mills and Nancy Mills:

* “The less well you know or like the people coming over, the more work you will do to impress them.”

* “The more things you cook, the more likely you are to have a mishap. . . . Even Babe Ruth struck out once in a while.”

* “Put spinach in a beat-up old metal dish, and everyone demurs; put it in a ceramic elephant, and people fight for seconds.”

* “If you serve [food] in the container with the bar code on it, the spell will be broken.”

* “The lowest form of coffee is instant.”

* “Entertaining doesn’t mean there has to be a floor show. You don’t have to swing from the chandelier in a tuxedo singing show tunes.”

* “Any recipe with only two ingredients is my kind of recipe.” (Think prosciutto and melon.)

* “We all want dessert, and we want it bad.”

* “Bakery cakes may look perfect, but the icing usually tastes like grout.”

* “No one’s going to request zucchini for a final meal.”